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With the 2013 intern season winding down, we’d like to highlight some of the intern contributions to Mozilla Web Dev projects. This year five interns from four countries spent a few months at our Mountain View office building amazing things: … Continue reading

This is a regular post focusing on the status of the Firefox Marketplace. Total bugs open: 559 Total bugs opened: 315 Total bugs closed: 235 Some specific changes of note: Separated out the API between installing a paid app and … Continue reading

This is a regular post focusing on the status of the Firefox Marketplace. Total bugs open: 577 Total bugs opened: 244 Total bugs closed: 193 Some specific changes of note: Some APIs have been copied to a new namespace for … Continue reading

This is a regular post focusing on the status of the Firefox Marketplace. Total bugs open: 575 Total bugs opened: 384 Total bugs closed: 284 Some specific changes of note: Start of moving the API from Django Tastypie over to … Continue reading

Crimson Twins is a project that I started at Mozilla to power two ambient displays that we mounted on the wall in the Mountain View Mozilla office. We use it to show dashboards, such as the current status of the … Continue reading

How do you reason about a codebase the size of Firefox’s? How do you figure out who calls the function you’re messing with, without losing your context in an endless stream of false-positive-infested greps? You bust out DXR, Mozilla’s code search and static analysis tool. Continue reading

Featuring Jennifer Fong, also known as ednapiranha. What do you do at Mozilla? I am on the Developer Ecosystem team and work on the Developer Hub, build reference apps and help developers build apps for the Firefox Marketplace. Any fun … Continue reading

This is a regular post focusing on the status of the Firefox Marketplace. Total bugs open: 552 Total bugs opened: 298 Total bugs closed: 218 Some specific changes of note: APIs added for payment status and users permissions (868030 and … Continue reading

Guest post on behalf of Matt Basta. Avoid code duplication and reusing code is always an admirable goal. However, in some occasions, it’s not a bad idea to duplicate a little bit of code in order to make your software … Continue reading

This is a regular post focusing on the status of the Firefox Marketplace. Total bugs open: 538 Total bugs opened last two weeks: 237 Total bugs closed last week: 159 Payments testing was conducted in the field and that caused … Continue reading